Amazon third-party sellers
April 10, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, retail ]
Amazon third-party sellers, are hit repeatedly by hackers who post fake deals on legitimate sellers' pages.
Internal Revenue Service
April 6, 2017
•[ government, hack, social ]
The Internal Revenue Service says that the personal data of as many as 100,000 taxpayers could have been compromised through a scheme in which hackers posed as students using an online tool to apply for financial aid.
Unnamed Brazilian bank
April 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, finance ]
Kaspersky reveals that on October 2016, a group of hackers rerouted all the traffic of an unnamed Brazilian bank's customers to perfectly reconstructed fakes of the bank's properties.
University of Idaho
March 6, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after a phishing incident.
PharmaNet
February 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
The personal information of approximately 7,500 British Columbians may have been compromised through the provincial government's PharmaNet system, when an "unknown/unauthorized person obtained and used a physician's login to access PharmaNet."
Citizens Memorial Hospital
February 14, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Citizens Memorial Hospital employees' data are compromised by a W-2 phishing scam.
International Trade Union Confederation
February 14, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, government ]
Amnesty International reveals the details of Operation Kingphish: a campaign of cyberattacks mainly targeting activists and journalists in Qatar and Nepal. One of the named victims is the International Trade Union Confederation.
Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA)
February 8, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, government ]
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals could have been hacked due to an intrusion in the email system.
Manatee County School District
February 3, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Manatee County School District is the victim of a phishing scam that compromises the information from almost 8,000 employees.
Sunrun
January 27, 2017
•[ social, phishing, energy ]
Solar panel maker Sunrun is hit with a spearphishing attack, impersonating the CEO Lynn Jurich, that gets away with the company employee W-2 information.
Campbell County Health
January 26, 2017
•[ social, phishing, healthcare ]
Social Security numbers and W-2 information for about 1,400 employees who worked over the past year at Campbell County Health are mistakenly released to someone impersonating a hospital executive.
Odessa School District
January 26, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Odessa School District is hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Argyle school district
January 25, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Argyle school district warns its workers that their W-2 tax forms were lost in a phishing attack.
Tipton County Schools
January 23, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tipton County Schools are hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Dracut Public Schools
January 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Current and former employees' personal information, including SSN, is acquired by a hacker after an employee falls for what the district describes as a "sophisticated phishing scheme."
Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
Unknown Organization
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, healthcare ]
Southcentral Foundation (SCF) in Alaska notifies 14,719 individuals after two employees' email accounts containing protected health information were hacked in October.
KeepKey
December 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, discloses how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords.
Three Mobile
November 18, 2016
•[ hack, phishing, technology ]
Three Mobile admits that hackers have successfully accessed its customer upgrade database after using an employee login. 6 million customers' private information is at risk.
City of El Paso
November 2, 2016
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The City of El Paso is "robbed" of about $3 million intended for the streetcar project, when a person or group pretending to be a vendor scammed the city by using a phishing attack.
